Anti-Tobacco Lawyer Scruggs Reports To Ky. Prison

Anti-tobacco lawyer Richard "Dickie"Scruggs has reported to a federal prison in eastern Kentucky. Prison spokesman Larry E. Whitman says Scruggs entered a federalprison in Ashland at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday. He is beginning afive-year sentence for conspiring to bribe a judge with $50,000. Scruggs was one of two people to plead guilty to the charge.Prosecutors say Scruggs wanted a favorable ruling in a dispute over$26.5 million in legal fees from a settlement of Hurricane Katrinainsurance cases. In the 1990s, Scruggs used a corporate insider to take ontobacco companies in lawsuits that resulted in a $206 billionsettlement. That case was portrayed in the 1999 film "TheInsider" that starred Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.

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